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Ukraine’s VARTA DroneHunter Drone Interception System Presented in Latvia

Ukrainian defence company VARTA has unveiled the DroneHunter, a drone-mounted kinetic interceptor designed to neutralize small and medium-sized Russian UAVs on the battlefield. Militarnyi’s correspondent reported the details of this Ukrainian innovation during the Drone Summit 2025 held in Riga. At the defence exhibition, the Ukrainian company VARTA presented its anti-drone system featuring a dual […]

QinetiQ US Wins $41M Task Order to Support Army Counter UAS

– QinetiQ US won a $41 million, three-year task order to provide software and technology integration support for a counter-UAS project under the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) C5ISR Center. The company will deliver technical and software engineering expertise to advance counter-UAS capabilities across fixed installations, vehicles, and mobile deployment systems. As systems […]

Smartshooter Gets $13M US Army Contract for Smash 2000L Fire Control Systems

– SMARTSHOOTER, a designer, developer, and manufacturer of innovative fire control systems, has announced that its U.S. subsidiary, SMARTSHOOTER Inc., has received a new order valued at $13M from the U.S. Army for SMASH 2000L fire control systems. The systems will be deployed as part of the Army’s Transformation In Contact (TIC2.0) forces, a specially […]

Ukraine Arms Soldiers with Domestic Anti-Drone Pistol

The Ukrainian Defense Ministry has approved a domestically made anti-drone pistol for the armed forces in a move to enhance individual soldier survivability against hostile drones. Constructed as a single, unified piece instead of assembled from different components, the compact anti-drone pistol weighs just over 1 kilogram (2.2 pounds) with a 60-minute battery life. Acting […]

Sky Sentinel – Ukraine’s AI-Powered Anti-Drone Turret

Ukrainian engineers have developed Sky Sentinel, an AI-Powered Anti-Drone Turret,  in response to the ongoing Russian drone and missile attacks. What is Sky Sentinel? At first glance, Sky Sentinel might look like just another turret. But that’s a serious understatement. It is an autonomous, AI-controlled air-defense turret, equipped with a heavy machine gun and capable […]

Anti-Drone ‘Invisibility Cloaks’ Make Russian Soldiers Sitting Ducks

Russian soldiers are struggling to hide from Ukrainian drones, despite being given coats and blankets designed to hide them from thermal and night vision sensors.  The garments are intended to mask body heat, making soldiers harder to detect with night-vision and infrared optics. However they are constructed with faulty technology, and troops are often given […]

Ukraine is Adding Anti-Drone Cages to Drones

Ukrainian forces are now equipping drones to fly with metal mesh meant to protect them from other drones. The first video of an up-armoured Ukrainian drone just circulated online. The first anti-drone cages, which Ukrainian observers dubbed “cope cages,” began showing up on Russian armored vehicles shortly after Russian forces widened their war on Ukraine […]

HENSOLDT to Upgrade ASUL C-UAS System for German Armed Forces

The Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment, Information Technology and In-Service Support (BAAINBw) has commissioned the sensor specialist/solution provider HENSOLDT to enhance the functional capabilities of the ASUL defence system against unmanned aircraft systems. ASUL is part of a comprehensive air defence system: The modular counter-unmanned aircraft system (C-UAS) with a scalable sensor-effector mix of complementary […]

Ukraine’s AIM-9 Sidewinder-Armed Magura-7 Drone Boat on Display

Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence Directorate (GUR) released new video and details about the Magura-7 uncrewed surface vessels (USVs) the spy agency claims it used to down two Russian Su-30 Flanker multirole fighters. The revelations came during a ceremony to introduce a new stamp honouring Ukraine’s USV campaign that offered our best view yet of the Magura-7 […]